Austin Schmidt

VP, Marketing at OpenLoop

West Des Moines, Iowa, United States

About

Building marketing, growth, and rev ops at OpenLoop.

Experience

  • OpenLoop (Full-time · 1 yr 6 mos)
    • Vice President, Marketing
      May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

    • Vice President of Marketing and Revenue Operations
      Sep 2025 - May 2026 · 9 mos

      Building a health tech marketing and rev ops team across seven business units. First 12-month results: - Increased marketing-generated pipeline by 390% - Increased marketing-generated won deals by 500% - Hired and ramped a high-performing team of 14 Responsible for demand generation, SEO & AEO, AI implementation, product marketing, PR, brand, AI SDR outreach, marketing and sales analytics, marketing and sales operations, and customer growth experiments (retention, new products, funnels, etc.).

    • Director, Marketing and Revenue Operations
      Jan 2025 - Sep 2025 · 9 mos

      Building marketing and rev ops.

  • Fractional Growth Marketer at Rocketr
    May 2024 - Jan 2025 · 9 mos

    Built integrated ABM campaigns and offshore SDR outreach engines for start ups and SMBs.

  • Consultant at Marketer as a Service
    Mar 2017 - Jan 2025 · 7 yrs 11 mos

    I help start up and scale up B2B businesses reduce customer acquisition costs and accelerate growth. Specific strengths include: - Analytics, such as CAC / LTV modeling - SEM - SEO - Facebook and LinkedIn ads - YouTube ads - Email marketing - Conversion rate optimization - Website/landing page copywriting

  • Director of Performance Marketing at Netradyne
    Jun 2021 - Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    - Built all marketing channels from the ground up and hired a high-performing team of 4 - Planned and executed fully-integrated ABM campaigns
 - Managed department goal setting, forecasting, analytics, and marketing operations - Increased marketing-generated SQLs by 3.9x and pipeline by 9x in the first two quarters
 - Achieved 150% of 2023's marketing-generated revenue goal - Owned a $10+ million budget 
 - Responsible for: SEM, SEO, paid social, display, 3rd
party sites, YouTube, conversion rate optimization,
email, analytics, and marketing operations.

  • Sr. Performance Marketing Manager at KeepTruckin
    Aug 2020 - Jun 2021 · 11 mos

    Transitioned from consultant to full-time with KeepTruckin to rebuild the performance marketing function from the ground up. - Increased marketing-generated ARR by 3.4x YoY - Increased Return on Ad Spend (ROAS) by over 5x YoY - And most importantly, built a high-performing global team Responsible for: SEM, SEO, Facebook, LinkedIn, Display, YouTube, conversion rate optimization, app install ads, analytics and executive reporting, department goal/OKR setting, managing a 7 figure budget.